What Went Wrong (WWW) is a literary examination of the collapse of social cohesion in the modern West. It doesn’t argue from ideology, but follows the patterns that emerge across research, lived experience, and cultural history. Rather than starting with a theory and hunting for proof, it works from the ground up. Through data, story, and context, it traces how something essential has come apart.

Rather than offering a single explanation or political answer, WWW moves across multiple levels of analysis. It examines large systems and small psychological shifts to show how fragmentation begins, what reinforces it, and what it ultimately costs. The goal isn’t to preach or prescribe, but to make visible what is often ignored. It shows how deep the decay runs, and why surface-level debates tend to miss the point.

This is not a paper driven by outrage. It is a work of cultural diagnostics. And it asks the reader not just to examine the wreckage, but to recognize how much of it they already live among.

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